Posts tagged Jack Evans
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Breakfast links: Metro money
Metro budget bliss; Peace out, paper fare cards; Out of gas; Paid leave pushback; Metro as a PPP; Toll foes; Sweet community; TOD without the T?; Bad design is deadly. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Metro is listening
Metro seeking input; Fewer trains, steady ridership; Tax break incentives; Layoffs at LivingSocial; Falling wages; Not homeless anymore; Carpooling the Uber way; Gallaudet redevelopment advances; And…. Keep reading…
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A woman died crossing a street in Glover Park last night
The intersection of Wisconsin Avenue, Calvert Street, and 37th Street NW is dangerous. On Thursday evening a truck driver struck and killed a woman there. Keep reading…
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Mayor Bowser wants to raise DC’s parking tax. Here’s who would win and who would lose out
In her annual budget, Mayor Muriel Bowser has proposed fully funding DC’s share of WMATA’s costs. Part of that cost would come from a higher sales tax on parking garages and lots. Will the DC Council go along? If it does, who will pay more? Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Happy birthday Metro
In with the new; Arch Madness; Fear and loathing; Feed the rush; Move that bus!; Tune in for transit; Beefed up bikeshare; Partisan parking. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: No death spiral yet
No fare hikes today; Help for the homeless; Chevy Chase continues fight; Carpool express; The best for bikes; Walkblocked by snow; Maintain or expand transit?; Maintain or expand roads?; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: You’re fired
Falling Starr; Coming out of retirement; A representative scofflaw; Gentrification in Ward 8; Wells’s environmental vision; An urban state?; Rail smash; More housing for NYC; Google that ride; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Out in the cold
Deep freeze; Kicked off the bus; More housing, please; Olympics decision coming; Hogan’s picks; Never change; A better Penn?; Driving forecasts change; And in politics…; And on the streets…. Keep reading…
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Cheh keeps oversight of transportation, but Jack Evans will sit on the WMATA Board
Mary Cheh will continue to oversee transportation in the DC Council next year, but will continue to not also represent DC on the WMATA Board; instead, Jack Evans will. Anita Bonds will chair a committee on housing, while David Grosso will take the education gavel from David Catania. Council chairman Phil Mendelson just released his recommendations for committee assignments… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Streetcar obstacles
Farewell for made-in-USA; First M, now K; Evans hits a pedestrian; Park-its still not on Penn; WMATA needs more money; Plenty of parking, even on Black Friday; Va. gas taxes going up; A vertical office park; And…. Keep reading…